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The NASA Artemis II Human Research Data Methodology Challenge Names 10 Winners

The NASA Artemis II Human Research Data Methodology Challenge has concluded, with ten winners selected to receive prizes. Participants from across the country submitted novel methodologies for extracting scientific insight from small-sample, high-dimensional, multi-modal data. This challenge was designed to address objectives in NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) as it analyzes data from the four-astronaut Artemis II crew.

A panel of expert judges completed the evaluation, and $25,000 in monetary prizes were awarded across ten winning entries. First place took home $5,000, with $3,500 and $3,000 awarded to second and third. Placements four through six each received $2,500, and placements seven through ten each received $1,500.

Winners were invited to NASA’s 2027 HRP Investigators’ Workshop (IWS), the agency’s premier annual gathering of spaceflight researchers, with the chance to present in a poster session and meet HRP scientists and program leadership directly.  The challenge winners were also featured in the Methodology Showcase Series, where each winner shared a brief overview of their solution and how it addressed NASA HRP’s objectives.

Below are the winning participants: 

  • 1st place: Praniil Nagaraj, Transfer-Calibrated Normative Modeling. Affiliation: Purdue University
  • 2nd place: Estrella (Star) Perez, STELLAR (Systematic Trajectory Estimation via Layered Longitudinal Analysis and Regression). Affiliation: Independent Researcher
  • 3rd place: Waste Parrot Technologies (Naseem Khan), Unified Hierarchical Bayesian Spine. Affiliation: Waste Parrot Technologies
  • 4th place: OJ Ochiai, Bayesian N-of-1 with Dynamic Borrowing. Affiliation: Independent Researcher
  • 5th place: Ismael AL-Hadhrami, Dynamic Empirical-Bayes Counterfactual. Affiliation: University of Virginia
  • 6th place: Ivan Lavlinski, Bayesian State-Space Decision Layer. Affiliation: Independent Researcher
  • 7th place: Aaron Krasinski, Mechanism-Constrained AI for Vision Risk (SANS). Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 8th place: Vision One (Sushanta Khadka, Arpan Bom, Pranisha Karki), Integrated Health Monitoring. Affiliation: Vision One
  • 9th place: Ashlei Lewis, Integrated Multi-Study Health Profiling. Affiliation: Neuroviu
  • 10th place: Carm Hermosilla, Akasi (Interactive Data Interface). Affiliation: University of California, Irvine

Learn More About the Winning Solutions

Learn more about the winning solutions by watching the four-episode Methodology Showcase Series → floor23digital.com/hrpdatachallenge

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